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Maxime
Asked: 2020-06-17 08:26:41 +0800 CST

How to install RPM Fusion repository with Ansible on Fedora 32 Server virtual machine?

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I want to install RPM Fusion repository on Fedora 32 Server virtual machine with Ansible

I've tried various possibility unsuccessfully :

- name: Enable the RPM Fusion repository
command: dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-    free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
when: ansible_facts['os_family'] == 'Fedora' and ansible_facts['distribution_major_version'] == '32'

or

- name: Enable the RPM Fusion repository
  dnf:
    name: 'https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-    free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'
    state: present
  when: ansible_facts['os_family'] == 'Fedora' and ansible_facts['distribution_major_version'] == '32'

Every time the task is skipped

TASK [Enable the RPM Fusion repository] *******************************************************************************
skipping: [my-ip-address]

Do you have an idea?

Thanks!

rpm fedora ansible ansible-playbook repository

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Don't use command to install packages. This has no hope of idempotence and will fail in various and subtle ways.

    The reason these are skipped is that the os_family fact is never Fedora. It is set to RedHat on Fedora systems.

    You should be checking for the distribution name directly:

    when: ansible_distribution == 'Fedora' and ansible_distribution_major_version|int == 32

    You've got further problems, though, and your dnf play will also fail, because you tried to use a shell substitution and Ansible won't do anything with that.

    Your play should look more like this:

    - name: Enable the RPM Fusion repository
  dnf:
    name: "https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-{{ansible_distribution_major_version}}.noarch.rpm"
    state: present
  when: ansible_distribution == 'Fedora'

    We're actually providing the version number via substitution, so it will have "32" instead of a random shell command. And of course in this case there is no need to check the distribution version in when: because the relevant version is already provided in the package name.

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